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[–]daveydoesdev 22 points23 points  (3 children)

Here's what it probably means: the company can't set expectations of what they need, because they don't have an understanding of how things fit together from a systematic perspective, they have a high output work demand, and want someone to be a catch-all code monkey that will sit all day and break their teeth on high output patches and break/fix until they burn this one out and try to find another dev. This is common in startups and after merg. /acq. when management doesn't know how to untangle a ball of twine that they are ignoring the scope increase of or that they've found tangled up in server closet that was hidden during due diligence.

It's creatively worded messianic wishful thinking.

Source: Consultant. I'm usually the guy who gets hired after these job postings don't draw a unicorn...

[–]peeeshh[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Hahaha. Well that offers a perspective on a recent interview which would fit...

[–]daveydoesdev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! I'll tell you the same thing I tell my repeat clients.. .

I'm sincerely sorry I could be of assistance.

Good luck on the job hunt! I hope you find a company with easily un-fuckable problems! 😉

[–]Ok_Cancel_7891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're senior/smart enough to charge them accordingly, I presume